Re: Self-Introduction: Christopher Engelhard
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 02:43:03PM +0200, Christopher Engelhard wrote:
Hi all,
since I recently submitted my package for sshguard [1] for review [2],
this is probably a good time to introduce myself (some of you might
remember me from the packaging list). I'm also looking for a sponsor,
assuming the package is positively reviewed.
Hi Christopher,
welcome to Fedora. sshguard review is more than enough for a first package,
quite a complicated beast. I'll sponsor you into the packager group.
Zbyszek
> I"m Christopher, 35yr old, from Germany originally but living in the
> Netherlands. I"m a scientist and write mostly octave & some python code
> for data analysis, so I'd consider myself more of a script-wrangler than
> a developer, but I follow - and occasionally submit patches to - a
> number of other open source projects, including sshguard.
>
> About the package:
> sshguard is a log-monitoring service that blocks brute-force attempts on
> common services, similar to fail2ban. It"s not as freely configurable as
> the latter, but supports most common services out of the box and
> requires little to no configuration. Additionally, it supports pretty
> much any blocking backend one might think of.
>
> Best,
> Christopher
>
> [1] https://www.sshguard.net/
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1756582